[OBAFGKM]

What does the age of a planet have to do with light coming from an older distant object? If a new planet is formed tomorrow, it too will receive the same old light.

Far Sider's objection is that in a young universe the light would have to be created already on its way to earth at all points between earth and the distant source. No problem with that so far, but, it means that some observers in the universe will have sharp disagreements about the order of events in various places. I.e., cause and effect get to be ambiguous, and, I suppose, free will goes out the window.

[far sider]

Thanks for the help.....I think. ;)

[Consort]

We're going to have to reverse engineer the universe in order to get more data, but it's going to be very expensive and take a long time.